When Thomas Jefferson obtained a Koran (spelled Quran by the pretentious set) he was looking to see what it was all about. Before he became President, Jefferson was an ambassador along with John Adams. America at that time, was beset by some Islamic radicals your history books sometimes refer to as the Barbary Coast pirates.
They met with an ambassador from Tripoli and this polite chap informed them:
“That’s what we do. We are commanded to do so by Allah.” Jefferson later wrote that the Tripoli ambassador told him, “It was written in their Koran that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman (Muslim) who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to Paradise.”
Things were so much different then.
Speed up this hyper-enlightened post 9/11 era and we can’t get enough of officials getting sworn in on a book that Jefferson once obtained to learn about extremists murdering our sailors.
Rep. Keith Ellison was sworn in on Jefferson’s own Koran, as if this was some latent dream of the Founding Fathers. Most well read people were in on the joke and understood the moxy Rep. Ellison was showing by swearing in on the one book that was used to craft our defense of the first American attacks from Jihadists.
No one knew better except a few Glenn beck listeners and who cares anyway? The Koran is just like the Bible, etc…
Now we have an actual judge showcased just to provoke a reaction.
See page two for the Koran swearing judge
Or say the bible? The bible isn’t out constitution either
Our country was formed from God,and the Holy Bible, not a pedifiles pos .
You are misinformed
You do know what atheist means right?
Judges swear on our Bible!! I agree with Peter…she isn’t a judge to have this honorable seat if she used the Koran. If she lived in another country with that view…fine….we are hear in America. It Shows she believes in the writings of the Koran over our Bible in our country.
Miranda your “proof” that the United States is a Christian Nation comes from a site called “International Cops for Christ”….seriously?!
You know this is a free country with freedom of religion, right? If you want a country with ONE religion then you want a Theocracy. Try Iran.
I’m gonna guess that is a no…
Every American should protest this…its illegal the quran has no place in american culture.
So can an atheist be a judge?
Actually it wasn’t